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When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.
LESLIE FIEDLER
Stephen King is a powerful guy, will powerful vocabulary.
DEYTH BANGER
As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start ...
STEPHEN KING
You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuc...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the futur...
ANNE RICE
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.
CLIVE CUSSLER
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
STEPHEN KING
So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside l...
STEPHEN KING
I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.
STEPHEN KING
The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
STEPHEN KING
My closet!" hissed the figure. A spiderlike hand darted out and grabbed the doorknob. "My closet! Mi...
JULIE KAGAWA
It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good en...
STEPHEN KING
I am not the potter, not the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay; is not the value of the shape at...
STEPHEN KING
Stephen King was rejected 30 times before he finally gave up on getting his first book Carrie publis...
LORI R TAYLOR
Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges.
STEPHEN KING
Pet Sematary 1 is one crazy story and film.
DEYTH BANGER
Stephen Hawking says we will not survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our planet. Thi...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.
STEPHEN KING
Each character created by Stephen King is a proffesor... a guy full of knowledge.
DEYTH BANGER
(BEWARE)
Stephen King interviews and speeches are incrediable very powerful.
DEYTH BANGER
You Can't Kill Stephen King, the great film of all time what more awesome than that??
You can't...
DEYTH BANGER
If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER
I'm the king of bad ideas.
LISA KESSLER
Stephen King couldn't come up with a monster worse than this guy,
STEVE RELFORD
I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In th...
ANNE RICE
Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n...
BRET ELLIS
Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n...
BRET EASTON ELLIS
And that almost killed you?"
"It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad ...
STEPHEN KING
They float, they all float... and when you're down here with me, fat boy, you'll float too.
STEPHEN KING
Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.
STEPHEN KING
When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow brig...
STEPHEN KING
What I didn't realize was how many doors the act of writing unlocks, as if my Dad's old fountain pen...
STEPHEN KING
I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.
TRACY CHAPMAN
A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King.
GEORGE A. ROMERO
Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left.
HAROLD BLOOM
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act a...
JIM ELLIOT
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr The man who will not act until he knows all will never ...
JIM ELLIOT
King Stephen was a worthy peere, His breeches cost him but a crowne; He held them sixpence all...
THOMAS PERCY
You lost your son, but reality he is alive, my father I lost him I know on 99% he is dead if this is...
DEYTH BANGER
The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.
MARTIN VAN BUREN
For many of us, our proms were less Walt Disney's 'Cinderella' and more Stephen King'...
GINA BARRECA
Goo can't be return from dead person, revive him and you will see an evil thing. WHich isn't really ...
DEYTH BANGER
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
DENIS DIDEROT
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest
DENIS DIDEROT
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
DENIS DIDEROT
Ultimately, the purpose of magic is to free our potential, not bind us to ideas.
PHILIP CARR-GOMM
Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
DANA STABENOW
Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.
STEPHEN KING
Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic th...
WILLIAM H. MACY
FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.
STEPHEN KING
The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows
STEPHEN KING
When everything is at its worst, your mind just throws it all into the wastebasket and goes to Flori...
RICHARD BACHMAN
Want a balloon?
STEPHEN KING
The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.
STEPHEN KING
All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to ...
STEPHEN KING
There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was h...
STEPHEN KING
You’re on, Ted,” I told him. “Your big chance, boy. Don’t blow it. Folks, this kid is going ...
RICHARD BACHMAN
I?m pleading under my own free will.
TOM COUGHLIN
Sure, best seller. I'd love to knock Stephen King off the top of the list. I know I won't, b...
TIM O'BRIEN
Your hair is winter fire,
January embers.
My heart burns there, too.
-Stephen King, I...
STEPHEN KING
Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.
MICKEY SPILLANE
The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the...
VICTOR LAVALLE
The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the v...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
You know, when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living in someplac...
DEYTH BANGER
Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!
MAURICE DRUON
it was more like two scared kids huddling in the dark when they knew the monster under the bed wasn'...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, other...
HERACLITUS
My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the...
ALEXANDER KOCH
War is the father of us all, King of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it makes slave...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS
In our company sessions, we fight, argue and get emotional and passionate about defending our ideas....
RON VOS
The critical mind is too thin and cold, thinking itself will help little and reason will be of small...
LIN YUTANG
Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be ...
RICHARD STALLMAN
I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT
My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous....
MICHAEL EASTON
I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonf...
NNEDI OKORAFOR
Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's jo...
BARRY EISLER
When an idea takes hold, nothing can stop it!
STEPHEN RICHARDS
People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wing...
STEPHEN KING
Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.
STEPHEN KING
He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.
STEPHEN KING
There had never been a shortage of fools in the world
STEPHEN KING
Abrakadabra, und alles verwandelt sich in einen großen Haufen Scheiße.
STEPHEN KING
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the co...
SIGMUND FREUD
Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand?
JULIE KAGAWA
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
MARK VAN DOREN
Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw...
MARY GARDEN
You can see the evil, the evil is everywhere. As Far as I can tell I can build a town full of horror...
DEYTH BANGER
There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ...
ALBERT CAMUS
Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the e...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Good luck, good will, good fortune, not ill.
STEPHEN KING
You can only shove shit under your bed for so long before it starts moving around and wanting to get...
LILI ST. CROW
A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King h...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But...
LISA GARDNER
Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction a...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
The King has a right to make political remarks. He is a Thai citizen and has his rights and freedoms...
BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ
We're not going against Islam whatsoever. This is about free speech and the free marketplace of idea...
BROCK HILL
Let's start at the very end: The postscript of Stephen King's 'On Writing' contains ...
GARY KRIST
When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash, ... He simply has ...
ALLAN ADLER
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

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Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.
STEPHEN KING
It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good en...
STEPHEN KING
When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
STEPHEN KING
Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone’s chair, ...
STEPHEN KING
Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"

He stared at me, baffle...
STEPHEN KING
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic...
STEPHEN KING
I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost alw...
STEPHEN KING
Without his even being aware that it was happening, Paul's face rearranged itself into the expressio...
STEPHEN KING
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that s...
STEPHEN KING
There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the c...
STEPHEN KING
Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, ...
STEPHEN KING
Love leaves scars.
STEPHEN KING
When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the tim...
STEPHEN KING
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
STEPHEN KING
Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.
STEPHEN KING
He killed them with their love
STEPHEN KING
Home is where they want you to stay longer.
STEPHEN KING
For God’s sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thin...
STEPHEN KING
He was a poet who sometimes taught Free University classes or travelled in the western states of Uta...
STEPHEN KING
She's the Queen Bitch of Castle Hell. If you mess with her, she'll eat you alive.
STEPHEN KING
When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invaria...
STEPHEN KING
Get busy living or get busy dying.
STEPHEN KING
Good books are for consideration after, too.
STEPHEN KING
And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?
STEPHEN KING
Churchbells were calling the faithful to worship, and outside it was a beautiful day
STEPHEN KING
I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let h...
STEPHEN KING